2025 Season

BRIDGE FESTIVAL 2025

Young Artist Recital

St. John’s Lutheran Church, Northfield

Thursday, August 21st at 7:30 PM

A performance celebrating rising young musicians.

The Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet

The Grand Event Center, Northfield

Friday, August 22nd at 7:30 PM
Charles Gorczynski, bandoneon; Devan Moran, violin; Alex Woods, piano; Sarah Lahasky, contrabass

The Artaria String Quartet with Aileen Razey

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf College

Sunday, August 24th at 3:00 PM

Aileen Razey, Clarinestist
Ray Shows, violin; Nancy Oliveros, violin; Annalee Wolf, viola; Rebecca Merblum, cello

The Artaria String Quartet

St. John’s Lutheran Church, Northfield

Sunday, September 14th at 3:00 PM

Ray Shows, violin; Nancy Oliveros, violin; Annalee Wolf, viola; Rebecca Merblum, cello

2023 Season

BRIDGE FESTIVAL 2023

Bridge Festival Outdoor Performances at the Riverwalk Market Fair

Saturday, August 19th at 11 AM - Bridge Square Fountain
Musicians will perform at the Riverwalk Market Fair to celebrate chamber music in the community!

Ivalas Quartet

Monday, August 21st at 7:30 PM - First United Church of Christ, Northfield

Osvaldo Golijov - Tenebrae
Eleanor Alberga - String Quartet No. 1
George Walker - Lyric
Franz Josef Haydn - String Quartet Op. 77 No. 2

Bohemian Rhapsody

Francesca Anderegg, violin; Matthew McCright, piano; Richard Belcher, cello
Wednesday, August 23rd at 7:30 PM - Urness Recital Hall in St. Olaf College’s Christiansen Hall of Music
Joaquin Turina - Trio del Circulo
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Antonín Dvořák - Piano Trio no. 4 in E Minor “Dumky”

Young Artists’ Recital

Thursday, August 24th at 7:30 PM - St. John’s Lutheran Church of Northfield

Uplifted Voices: Music from Iran

Ehsan Matoori, santoor & composer; Maliheh Moradi, voice
Friday, August 25th at 7:30 PM - Kracum Performance Hall in Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity
A performance by celebrated vocalist Maliheh Moradi, highlighting Iranian women’s perseverance and struggle for freedom in the face of social and cultural oppression.

2022 Season

BRIDGE FESTIVAL 2022

AUGUST 22ND - MUSIC FROM BRAZIL

Erika Ribeiro, piano, Francesca Anderegg, violin, Gabriel Campos Zamora, clarinet, Sarah Lewis, cello

7:30 PM: St. John's Lutheran Church, Northfield

AUGUST 24TH - MIKE BLOCK AND SANDEEP DAS

Featured Guest Artists Mike Block and Sandeep Das of the Silk Road Ensemble

1-3 PM: Improvisation Workshop with Mike Block

7:30 PM: Concert with Mike Block, cello, and Sandeep Das, tabla, joined by Gao Hong, pipa

Both events: Kracum Performance Hall, Carleton College, Northfield

AUGUST 26TH - NIKKI CHOOI AND 10TH WAVE CHAMBER MUSIC COLLECTIVE

Music of Geminiani, Ravel and Piazzolla

Featuring virtuoso violinist Nikki Chooi, concertmaster of the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra

7:30 PM: First United Church of Christ, Northfield

AUGUST 28TH - STRING QUARTETS BY WOMEN

String Quartets by Women Composers

The Jamison Ensemble: Elise Parker, violin, Anne Ainomae, viola, Jane Cords O'Hara, cello

3 PM: Keepsake Cidery, Dundas

2021 Season

The festival presented two weekend of concerts in 2021. On Memorial Day weekend, musicians presented a concert of works by Astor Piazzolla, J.S. Bach, and Samuel Coleridge Taylor, performed by Scott Anderson, Catherine Ramirez, Nicholas Tavani, Francesca Anderegg, Yi-Chun Lin, and Teresa Richardson. Founder David Carter played at the Riverwalk Market Fair, and JC Sanford and his trio played a concert in Central Park.

On August 25th, guest cellist Christine Lamprea performed a recital at St John's Lutheran Church at 7:30 pm, with works by Manuel Ponce, Alejandro Cardona and Franz Schubert, joined by musicians Francesca Anderegg, Nicola Melville and Esther Wang. On August 27th, Stone Arch Brass performed an outdoor concert in Central Park behind the Weitz Center. On August 28th, St. Olaf College alum Meredith Maloley performed at the Riverwalk Market Fair at 10 am. Finally, on August 29th, the Season Finale was held at Keepsake Cidery in Dundas - music of Rebecca Clarke and Felix Mendelssohn, performed by Francesca Anderegg, Alexandra Early, Emily Hagen, Justin Knoepfel and Sarah Lewis.

Enjoy our encore presentation of the 2021 season, this recital by Emery Stephens, recorded at St. John's Lutheran Church.

Emery writes:

"Three influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance inspire this virtual project on African American poets and composers – Langston Hughes (1901-1967), James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), and Claude McKay (1889-1948). As you listen to the music of Dorothy Rudd Moore, Margaret Bonds, Charles Brown, Robert Owens, and John Rosamond Johnson, you will hear these thought-provoking works on racial inequality and social justice through the lived experiences of their creators. Thank you to Artistic Director Francesca Anderegg, Founder and Board President David Carter, Bridge Chamber Music Festival, Flight Creative Media in Minneapolis, St. John's Lutheran Church in Northfield, and everyone involved in this collaboration."

2020 Season

The 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival produced performances at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Northfield in December 2020 and April 2021. Links to those performances are below.

https://youtu.be/RqsjnY_B26E

https://youtu.be/Ca173Apu938

2017 Season

The 2017 Season took place August 17th to 27th, and was composed of six recitals. Among these recitals were many classical chamber performances, as well as the yearly young artists recital. The entire program for this season can be viewed with the link below.

2016 Season

The 2016 Season took place between August 21st and 27th, and consisted of five performances. Unlike the previous years, this season did not have any jazz performances featured, but still contained classical chamber works as well as the young artist recital. The full program can be viewed using the link below.

2015 Season

The 2015 Season consisted of six recitals between August 20th to 27th. These recitals featured classical works alongside jazz performances, including a young artists recital. The full program can be viewed through the link below.

2014 Season

The 2014 Season, taking place from August 20th to 26th, was composed of six performances. These performances featured a combination of classical and jazz music, as well as a young artists recital. The program can be seen through the link below.

2011 Season

The 2011 Season, running from August 18th to 25th, was composed of four performances. These performances featured classical chamber works by mozart, Shostakovich, Brahms, Martini, Vivaldi, Handel, Saint-Saens, Telemann, Taffanel, Dohnanyi, Ellington, Urnem, Weber, Mahler, Martinu, Rachmaninoff, and Schubert. The 2011 Program is available for viewing through the link below.